History of American Literature

by Reuben Post Halleck

REFERENCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

HISTORICAL

In addition to the American and English histories suggested on pp. 60, 61,
the following may be consulted: Burgess's The Middle Period, 1817-1858;
Coman's The Industrial History of the United States, Chaps. VI. and VII.;
Bogart's Economic History of the United States, Chap. XIV; Sparks's The
Expansion of the American People.

LITERARY

Richardson's American Literature.

Trent's A History of American Literature.

Wendell's History of Literature in America.

Stanton's A Manual of American Literature.

Herford's The Age of Wordsworth.

Stedman's Poets of America. (Drake, Halleck, Bryant.)

The Croakers, pp. 255-385, in The Poetical Writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck, edited by James Grant Wilson.

Wilson's Fitz-Greene Halleck's Life and Letters.

Irving's, Pierre M.: Life and Letters of Washington Irving, 4 vols.

Warner's The Work of Washington Irving (60 pages, excellent).

Warner's Washington Irving (304 pages, American Men of Letters).

Payne's Leading American Essayists, pp. 43-134. (Irving.)

Canby's The Short Story in English, pp. 218-226. (Irving.)

Lounsbury's James Fenimore Cooper. (American Men of Letters; excellent.)

Clymer's James Fenimore Cooper. (Beacon Biographies.)

Brownell's American Prose Masters. (Cooper.)

Erskine's Leading American Novelists, pp. 51-129. (Cooper.)

Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, edited with Introduction by Halleck.

Godwin's A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, with Extracts from his
Private Correspondence, 2 vols. (The standard authority.)

Godwin's The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, 2 vols.

Bigelow's William Cullen Bryant. (American Men of Letters.)

Bradley's William Cullen Bryant. (English Men of Letters, American
Series.)

Chadwick's The Origin of a Great Poem (Thanatopsis), Harper's Magazine,
September, 1894,